It was a staffing issue and it was inadvertent, it was a mistake, it was not a deliberate action," Cruz said, according to The Washington Post. He added: "We're dealing with it internally but it was a mistake, it was not malicious conduct."

and this statement from the same article:

Article wrote:

An aide to Cruz confirmed the comments to CNN, adding that there would be an internal effort to figure out who was responsible.

are contradictory.

How does Cruz know it was inadvertent and not malicious if they don't yet know who was responsible? My guess is that Cruz knows who did it (himself inadvertently) and yelled at his staff, "Figure out who did this!"

This appears to be the case of Texas Senator, failed presidential nominee, and universally reviled deep-sea slug Ted Cruz, who, it was discovered yesterday, smashed that heart button (this is not a euphemism) for one of @SexuallPosts “sexuall posts”

This appears to be the case of Texas Senator, failed presidential nominee, and universally reviled deep-sea slug Ted Cruz, who, it was discovered yesterday, smashed that heart button (this is not a euphemism) for one of @SexuallPosts “sexuall posts”

The internet collective dump on the richly deserving is something to behold.

Invalid tweet.

Who wants to guess if this will make Ted more or less popular with the "new" Republican Base? We already know this will make him more popular with [Shreve] Dominionists [/Shreve] and evangelical Christians (both liking porn and deleting it at the same time!).

It was a staffing issue and it was inadvertent, it was a mistake, it was not a deliberate action," Cruz said, according to The Washington Post. He added: "We're dealing with it internally but it was a mistake, it was not malicious conduct."

and this statement from the same article:

Article wrote:

An aide to Cruz confirmed the comments to CNN, adding that there would be an internal effort to figure out who was responsible.

are contradictory.

How does Cruz know it was inadvertent and not malicious if they don't yet know who was responsible? My guess is that Cruz knows who did it (himself inadvertently) and yelled at his staff, "Figure out who did this!"

This appears to be the case of Texas Senator, failed presidential nominee, and universally reviled deep-sea slug Ted Cruz, who, it was discovered yesterday, smashed that heart button (this is not a euphemism) for one of @SexuallPosts “sexuall posts”

The internet collective dump on the richly deserving is something to behold.

Who wants to guess if this will make Ted more or less popular with the "new" Republican Base? We already know this will make him more popular with [Shreve] Dominionists [/Shreve] and evangelical Christians (both liking porn and deleting it at the same time!).

Eh. No effect whatsoever.

- For GOP faithful: a non-issue. As long as Cruz gets to sponsor all manner of bathroom bills, "conscientious objector" bills, bomb-throwing defund-the-government bills, our completely ends-oriented GOP isn't going to concern itself with Ted's feverishly churned-out, grunting and grubby denials.- For liberals: yet another moralizing Republican gets hoisted on the "hysterical moralizing is for other people" petard. Film at fucking 11. (Then again, it's still fucking funny, but I amuse easily.)

Yeah, the only surprise is that with Ted Cruz it isn't German scat pr0n.

'At the time, he and other clerks were helping the justices learn about internet pornography for legal purposes, which meant showing pornography to Rehnquist while seated next to former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom Rehnquist dated in law school.

“As we watched these graphic pictures fill our screens, wide-eyed, no one said a word,” Cruz wrote in an excerpt published by Politico Magazine in 2015. “Except for Justice O’Connor, who lowered her head, squinted slightly, and muttered, ‘Oh, my.’”'

I make fun of Trump because he can't stay off Twitter and no other politician ever twitted like that, but now I am willing to completely throw that out the window and think that a powerful senator not only does all his own tweeting, but gets his porn off his twitter account because herpaderp is fun.

I make fun of Trump because he can't stay off Twitter and no other politician ever twitted like that, but now I am willing to completely throw that out the window and think that a powerful senator not only does all his own tweeting, but gets his porn off his twitter account because herpaderp is fun.

Nope. I throw nothing out the window.

Look, I can't help that the GOP elected Trump. They'll never live that down. His blustering on and on about things he knows absolutely nothing about, in 140-character increments, is just the cherry on the shit sundae of his incompetence. The dumb, Junior. Trump's dumb is napalm.

"He may be an asshole, but he's our asshole" really only takes you so far, and to steal from Seth Myers, in the end you've still got an infected, white nationalist asshole.

Cruz, on the other hand, is definitely smart, maybe even brilliant. (It does take some brains to clerk for Supreme Court justices.) But I don't make fun of him for herpaderp, because that's not Cruz' MO. No, I make fun of him because he owes his entire career as a politician to being a hysterical moral scold. His stock in trade is demonizing poor dildos and excoriating gay people, neither of whom have done anything wrong, and while it's no surprise to me that the smarmiest bomb-thrower in the Senate beats it to phone Twitter porn, the fact that Ted Frigging Cruz managed to smarm through his hilarious denial is just more comedy sauce for his greasy, furtive, and grubby goose.

If people don't have a right to "stimulate their own genitals", according to him, then maybe he should give us all a break and do his own research. Nude and quietly desperate research.

I make fun of Trump because he can't stay off Twitter and no other politician ever twitted like that, but now I am willing to completely throw that out the window and think that a powerful senator not only does all his own tweeting, but gets his porn off his twitter account because herpaderp is fun.

Nope. I throw nothing out the window.

Look, I can't help that the GOP elected Trump. They'll never live that down. His blustering on and on about things he knows absolutely nothing about, in 140-character increments, is just the cherry on the shit sundae of his incompetence. The dumb, Junior. Trump's dumb is napalm.

"He may be an asshole, but he's our asshole" really only takes you so far, and to steal from Seth Myers, in the end you've still got an infected, white nationalist asshole.

Cruz, on the other hand, is definitely smart, maybe even brilliant. (It does take some brains to clerk for Supreme Court justices.) But I don't make fun of him for herpaderp, because that's not Cruz' MO. No, I make fun of him because he owes his entire career as a politician to being a hysterical moral scold. His stock in trade is demonizing poor dildos and excoriating gay people, neither of whom have done anything wrong, and while it's no surprise to me that the smarmiest bomb-thrower in the Senate beats it to phone Twitter porn, the fact that Ted Frigging Cruz managed to smarm through his hilarious denial is just more comedy sauce for his greasy, furtive, and grubby goose.

If people don't have a right to "stimulate their own genitals", according to him, then maybe he should give us all a break and do his own research. Nude and quietly desperate research.

So you start with "no" but then spend the rest of the post saying "yes." And I get it, it's fun to do for all the reasons you say. But if I had asked you a week ago if, while certainly accountable for everything that his feed posts, do you think Ted Cruz personally manages his Twitter feed, what would your response have been? My guess? A lot different than it is now when it's a fun story.

Cruz will do an internal investigation of his social media team. He'll find out who did it. And that person will be terminated. And I hope they are let go quietly, since Cruz being a prude does not mean that an innocent person should be publicly shamed for getting a bit sloppy between personal and work logins, along with having a different moral compass than Cruz.

I make fun of Trump because he can't stay off Twitter and no other politician ever twitted like that, but now I am willing to completely throw that out the window and think that a powerful senator not only does all his own tweeting, but gets his porn off his twitter account because herpaderp is fun.

Nope. I throw nothing out the window.

Look, I can't help that the GOP elected Trump. They'll never live that down. His blustering on and on about things he knows absolutely nothing about, in 140-character increments, is just the cherry on the shit sundae of his incompetence. The dumb, Junior. Trump's dumb is napalm.

"He may be an asshole, but he's our asshole" really only takes you so far, and to steal from Seth Myers, in the end you've still got an infected, white nationalist asshole.

Cruz, on the other hand, is definitely smart, maybe even brilliant. (It does take some brains to clerk for Supreme Court justices.) But I don't make fun of him for herpaderp, because that's not Cruz' MO. No, I make fun of him because he owes his entire career as a politician to being a hysterical moral scold. His stock in trade is demonizing poor dildos and excoriating gay people, neither of whom have done anything wrong, and while it's no surprise to me that the smarmiest bomb-thrower in the Senate beats it to phone Twitter porn, the fact that Ted Frigging Cruz managed to smarm through his hilarious denial is just more comedy sauce for his greasy, furtive, and grubby goose.

If people don't have a right to "stimulate their own genitals", according to him, then maybe he should give us all a break and do his own research. Nude and quietly desperate research.

So you start with "no" but then spend the rest of the post saying "yes." And I get it, it's fun to do for all the reasons you say. But if I had asked you a week ago if, while certainly accountable for everything that his feed posts, do you think Ted Cruz personally manages his Twitter feed, what would your response have been? My guess? A lot different than it is now when it's a fun story.

Cruz will do an internal investigation of his social media team. He'll find out who did it. And that person will be terminated. And I hope they are let go quietly, since Cruz being a prude does not mean that an innocent person should be publicly shamed for getting a bit sloppy between personal and work logins, along with having a different moral compass than Cruz.

It's certain that someone who is not Ted Cruz will be blamed for this. 100% certain. It is not 100% certain, even by you, that Ted Cruz was not himself personally responsible for this fuck up. He probably wasn't, but no one, except him and one or two members (get it?) of his staff (repeat joke from above but it was too good to pass up), will ever know for sure. Pretending that there's no way it was Cruz is a fiction. It's not like he did not have access to that Twitter account.